Our Worst Nightmare Realized: Subway Stations and Tracks To Have Cell Service, Wi-Fi [Bad Ideas]

Not only will the town\’s subway stations be rigged to support your handheld electronic devices, but chatty citizens might be allowed to make calls in between stops, too. Is there anything worse than this?

The MTA reached a cope with an organization called Transit Wireless three years ago to enable cellular phone service in subway stations, but the firm never proceeded with the plans. Now it\’s back on the front burner, apparently, and the plans are even more ambitious than before considering they\’re planning to install both phone signal and internet access underground. And where the stops are close enough together-and the tunnels are wider-riders must have coverage during their entire underground journey, says an official from Q-Wireless, some of the four companies working with Transit Wireless to install the subterranean transmissions. This can be a travesty. For plenty people the subway is the simplest place to not only break out from the nagging of your personal iPhone or Droid, but in addition to end your entire chattering, inane conversations of your fellow citizens.

Under the current deal, Transit Wireless has two more years to install the technology in six test stations and then eight years to wire all 277 subway stations. Cell phones in stations we will form of understand, but allowing people to have conversations while commuting may bring forth the top civilization as we comprehend it. And, really, why does the subway need wi-fi? With the intention to download porn onto your iPad on the 6 Train? Really? Everyone knows the subway is for jerking off while observing real people. Come on!

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